harmonic mean

1. 1.

   the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers

   Broadermean

   statistics

Questions about harmonic mean

What does harmonic mean mean?

harmonic mean means "the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers".

Is harmonic mean a common word?

harmonic mean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.